Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

Utagawa Hiroshige

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Deep snow covers the slope of Kanbara in the evening. Fresh flakes falling on the houses, trees, and mountains create a quiet that is broken only by the implied crunch of travelers' footsteps in the snow. This scene is almost entirely imaginary; it rarely snows in the Kanbara area, in present-day Shizuoka Prefecture.

Asian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"Evening Snow at Kanbara, from the series "Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō"

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